Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer knows many a radio owner who listens regularly to news broadcasts, but only one who has foregone newspapers for radio news. That one is 82 years old, and nearly blind-but into his home come no fewer than three daily newspapers, two Sunday newspapers, and two weekly newsmagazine-digests...
...Harvard Union, the offices of the H.A.A., and the headquarters of Colonel Charles R. Apted '06. Day by day a flood of articles is turned in to Colonel Apted, and working with incredible rapidity he manages to return a small proportion of these articles to their rightful owners. All things found in the Yard, even tortoises strayed from the Biology Department, eventually are turned in to the Colonel, who throws them into a closet and waits for the owner to come around and prove his identity...
...membership dues, the club also decided, are to be set at $20 per man. The money collected from dues will eventually be used to buy a plane for the club's own use. Membership cards, which will entitle the owner to the above rates may be obtained from Otho S. A. Sprague '36, Secretary, Adams...
...William M. Walker resigned as president of the Chicago Cubs. Owner Philip K. Wrigley, who a year ago saw his team in action only five times, took over the job, promised new features for next year...
Last week Alpha, the robot, made its first public appearance in the U. S. One of the most ingenious automatons ever contrived by man, a grim and gleaming monster 6 ft. 4 in. tall, the robot was brought to Manhattan by its owner-inventor-impresario, Professor Harry May of London, and installed on the fifth floor of R. H. Macy & Co.'s department store. Encased from head to foot in chromium-plated steel armor, Alpha sat on a specially constructed dais with its cumbrous feet securely bolted to the floor, stared impassively over the knot of newshawks and store...